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Meritocracy vs. Democracy

"Ubuntu's 'meritocracy' is flawed to say the least. Ubuntu's developers are grossly uninformed as to what the Ubuntu community and users want and need. We need someone who is actually informed of what the community wants. Consensus means "majority of opinion", of course getting a vote from everyone in the community would be impossible, but this would be a direct-democracy approach..."